Latest Matt Lucas Quotes from Interviews

• You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.

  Matt Lucas

  Character, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

  Matt Lucas

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I told Bernie Taupin that his best lyrics were for Song For Guy just because it doesn't have any words in it. But there you go... I'm a wind up! But a good Elton song for karaoke is I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues... "laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder under the covers..." Everyone can join in!

  Matt Lucas

  Song, Children, Wind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• My favourite song of Elton's is... it's a tricky one for me. I'm a proper fan and I've probably seen him in concert about a dozen times before I even met him. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, which isn't in this film... but whenever I see him, I always tell him that Passengers is my favourite song because it's one of his least auspicious ones.

  Matt Lucas

  Song, Mad, Dozen

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

  Matt Lucas

  Thinking, Honest, Juliet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old Vic in London and we were at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and I walked on stage and I've got an opening speech that begins: "Agamemnon, how if he had boils?" And I went on and said: "Agamemnon..." And a woman in the front row just went 'tut'. I thought: "I've only done four syllables, give us a chance!" I got one word out and the audience were already tutting. It was worse than any heckle I ever had doing comedy. So, I'll stick to gnomes.

  Matt Lucas

  Running, Giving, Theatre

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

  Matt Lucas

  Jobs, Real, Decision

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It was very pleasurable and easy and it was nice to work with friends... people I already knew, people I didn't know but I now count as friends. There is a lot of hard work that goes into the movie but I can't claim to have been any part of that.

  Matt Lucas

  Nice, Hard Work, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• But we did see the process develop. I remember going to the Rocket Pictures base and they had something like 40 people there, drawing. They didn't know what the characters looked like yet and I remember on the walls seeing 30 or 40 different versions of Juliet. So, it was then that I realised that someone's got to come in and make some really executive decisions.

  Matt Lucas

  Wall, Character, Drawing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Honestly, I was just happy to get the work. I was chuffed to bits. I know David Furnish and Elton John a bit and I remember David talking very excitedly about it. This was going back four or five years even, when we were doing Little Britain at the Hammersmith Apollo. I'd lost my voice that night, but still did the show. I remember thinking: "God, they're going to think that's my voice and I'm not going to get in the film!" But it's just been a pleasure to be a part of.

  Matt Lucas

  Thinking, Night, Voice

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk